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Is this inspired by that Republican woman on the Colbert Report? I must say i couldn't remember Jesus saying anything about "teach a man how to fish" (unless he had a side-job as a Chinese philosopher).

It was kind of like "Hmm, i need something to supports my party's (not-so-Jesus-like) stance. Ooh, here's a phrase that has teaching and fish. If i say it quickly enough it will sound biblical-ish."

"The average viewer won't know Jesus never said any such thing - especially if i wear a distractingly ostentatious cross on my necklace."

Oh, and my entry is 1 and 4. Number 3 is of biblical origin - but not said by Jesus.

Relevant Quotes

"This is what the LORD says: 'If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time…If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant'" - Jeremiah 33:20, 25-26 (NIV)

"It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out."- Proverbs 25:2 (ESV)

"The scientific ethos, moreover, is...the will to be obedient to the truth, and, as such, it embodies an attitude which belongs to the essential decisions of the Christian spirit." - Pope Benedict XVI